[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty

Thu Mar 8 17:36:43 CET 2012

On Thursday 08 March 2012 15:33, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> > Then you're also sacrificing a few braille users. (e.g. blind users.)
+> 
+> Can you give more details on this?
+
+Some braille devices use the serial port in order to operate.
+How they communicate I don't really know.
+
+A blind friend of mine use serial console's when he cannot access the machine via network, during installation and when he cannot acess a system over the network for some reason, and brltty is not installed on it.
+I also believe some admins access servers which do not have a screen attached to it using serial console, and they can't or don't want to access it over the network. (A mailserver I used to maintain, had serial console access as requirement from the management.)
+
+If we are in the posistion to be able to chose between having serial console access or not, and it's not a big change in code, configuration and what not, my vote is to keep serial console access.
+
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+Johnny A. Solbu
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